22 days ago
deusx : zmayhem: Customer service is fun! - "Anyhow, I want to see him today, before the socialism."
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nelson : Moneyball for medicine? - Argues that health care should be more statistics based. Um, duh?
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deusx : BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Banjo used in brain surgery - "A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. Eddie Adcock is one of the pillars of Bluegrass Music and realised his tremor could threaten his ability to perform prof
Andy Baio : Bluegrass musician plays banjo during his brain surgery - his ability to play was used as a measure of the surgery's success [via]
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2 month ago
joshua : Cool invention helps tired players bounce back
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3 month ago
deusx : Video: What LASIK Really Feels Like - Still somewhat freaked out by the whole concept of Lasik surgery, yet intrigued by the opportunity for enhancement. "Once my corneas were cut open and I experienced that initial pain, I was definitely frightened, and escaped to a corner of my mind wh
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3 month ago
deusx : Scientists may have cured cancer last week - more on DCA - "Here’s the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it
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3 month ago
deusx : Human Nature : Contraceptive Fudge: Addendum - "As a pharmacist, you have every right to refuse to fill contraceptive prescriptions. But your customers have every right to boycott your store, and your employer has every right to fire you. If you don't like your employer's policy, open y
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4 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Health | Broccoli may undo diabetes damage - "Our study suggests that compounds such as sulforaphane from broccoli may help counter processes linked to the development of vascular disease in diabetes"
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4 month ago
deusx : Lab-grown tendons gradually fade to bone - tech - 11 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech - "In the body, gradients like this strengthen the ends of tendons that attach to bones. Currently, lab-grown tendons put into the body often fail at the attachment end because they lack this property, says García. ... His new technique should lead
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5 month ago
wearehugh : The painful truth about painkillers - Las Vegas Sun - our drug of choice: "The United States makes up less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but is supplied 99 percent of its hydrocodone"
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gleuschk : Human egg makes accidental debut on camera - whoa, ovulations caught on film. I'll never eat salmon roe again
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7 month ago
joshua : Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’ - The New York Times
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8 month ago
deusx : Seed: Suspending Life - "Some lucky evolutionary accident ensured the mammals' safety through a deep sleep, and that accident may still be dormant within us. That which allowed our ancestors to survive millions of years ago might also be a means of our survival now."
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9 month ago
joshua : Self-Experimenter Freed Himself from Insomnia, Acne and Love Handles: Scientific American - medical self-experimentation
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deusx : Finding May Solve Riddle of Fatigue in Muscles - New York Times - "One of the great unanswered questions in physiology is why muscles get tired. The experience is universal, common to creatures that have muscles, but the answer has been elusive until now."
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10 month ago
deusx : Why I am an abortion doctor - "I can take a woman, in the biggest trouble she has ever experienced in her life, and by performing a five-minute operation, in comfort and dignity, I can give her back her life"
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deusx : Docs Change the Way They Think About Death | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com - "The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself."
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10 month ago
joshua : What Dont We Know About the Pharmaceutical Industry? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics
Matthew M. Boedicker : what don't we know about the pharmaceutical industry - (via del.icio.us/joshua) [via]
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11 month ago
deusx : Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study - "An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation."
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12 month ago
joshua : Archive: Search: The New Yorker - gawande and groopman are good reads
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Ben Goldacre writes a long, brilliant and—please god—persuasive debunking of Homeopathy for The Guardian - The horror for me here is that cultural studies' critiques and examinations of the process of science are partly responsible for the public suspicion of evidence and rationality. Makes me very sad.
Rod Begbie : What's wrong with homeopathy, by Ben Goldacre | Science | The Guardian - Excellent article on homeopathy by Ben Goldacre -- not too ranty in an "all homeopathy is evil" way, rather a "homeopathy should be part of a discussion, if only for the benefits on the placebo effect, but we can't get the homeopaths to talk". Hopefully [via] #
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14 month ago
deusx : Researchers Knock Out HIV - "The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents HIV from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population."
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15 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Health | Woman sees own heart on display - "A woman has seen her own heart on display at a medical exhibition."
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16 month ago
deusx : His Heart Whirs Anew - washingtonpost.com - "If you find yourself embodied in a different way, your perceptions and awareness of the world would be changed."
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16 month ago
gleuschk : The gripe water story - from J. Royal Soc. Medicine -- only reasonable source I can find
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